Anna Weinbeer and Claudia Peretti, of KTM Spada Brenta Brakes - Olympia, wrapped up a perfect Swiss Epic in Davos on Sunday, 23 August 2026, winning their fifth stage to take the overall title in commanding fashion. Fadri Barandun and Andrin Beeli’s path to the general classification victory was significantly nervier, as Stefano Goria and [...]
The penultimate stage of the Swiss Epic saw Stefano Goria and Davide Foccoli, of SCOTT Racing 2, launch a stinging attack on the Wolfgang climb in pursuit of victory on the day and time in the battle for the 2026 title. The men in the yellow CIOVITA jerseys, Engadin La Punt’s Fadri Barandun and Andrin [...]
Anna Weinbeer and Claudia Peretti have been in imperious form over the first three days of the 2026 Swiss Epic. On Stage 3, the KTM Spada Brenta Brakes - Olympia team completed a perfect hat trick of victories, adding a further 4 minutes and 25 seconds to their overall advantage. In the Elite Men’s race, [...]
Honeycomb 226ers became the first team to win a stage at an Epic Series stage race on 32-inch wheels when Marc Pritzen and Felix Stehli won Stage 2 of the 2026 Swiss Epic. The South African/Swiss pairing charged through a shortened 24-kilometre time trial course to win the day in 43 minutes and 13 seconds [...]
Engadin La Punt’s Fadri Barandun and Andrin Beeli won the opening stage of the Swiss Epic on Wednesday, 19 August 2026. The Stage 1 victory is the first for both Swiss riders in their home stage race and was made sweeter for Barandun after narrowly missing out in 2024, also on a day that finished [...]
32-inch wheels have been the talk of the mountain bike world for months, and prototypes have made racing appearances at the Absa Cape Epic and in UCI Mountain Bike World Series races, but at the 2026 Swiss Epic they arrived en masse. Or at least in a significant number, with Stoll Bikes claiming that there [...]
The 2026 Swiss Epic is set to take place from the 19th to the 23rd of August in the south-eastern canton of Graubünden. Over the course of five stages, 500 riders in two-person teams will climb 11 000 metres on a 343-kilometre-long route. Newly crowned Swiss Mountain Bike Marathon Champions, Casey South and Anna Weinbeer, [...]
In Episode 12 of Season 2, the Diverge Podcast is back after an extended winter break. The mountain biking action has continued through the depths of winter, with the Ford Trailseeker series. On the 1st of August, the racing truly resumed in earnest, though with the Glacier Storms River Traverse, followed by the [...]
Efficient Infiniti SCB SRAM won a fourth stage of the SPAR Swiss Epic to wrap up their general classification title in style, on the final day of the 2025 race. The UCI Men’s competition saw Klimatiza Orbea secure a third stage victory, while Torpado Kenda FSA were able to soak up the sensations of being [...]
The mid-race time trial at the SPAR Swiss Epic allowed Torpado Kenda FSA and Efficient Infiniti SCB SRAM to exert their dominance over the 2025 SPAR Swiss Epic. The men in yellow and the women in orange paced their efforts to perfection to win Stage 3 by 1 minute and 14 seconds, and 3 minutes [...]
